Where the Unemployed Go

The former becomes the latter and the latter frequently becomes the former.




Goto Shiroi Hana. Bring your laptop and order the All-You-Can-Eat. Assplode your mind and tumach.

-- Posted from Clark St., Chicago, IL.

Cold Comforts

Take the DVDS, leave the cases.




Outside, visibility low due to snow. Inside, visibility nil. Someone lit a fire to be warm and it smoked them out!




New rules for Bar Louie: after 8pm, no baggy pants.

-- Posted from Clark St., Chicago, IL.

O, Spirit!

Clark Street throws caution tape to the wind.




worst. Christmas lights display. Ever.




It rang as I reached for it. Though it was cold n rainy I agreed to meet at Dunkin Donuts instead of just leaving it on the Fusion salon ledge. My Christmas Eve good deed!

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Emptiness, inside and out.

The cavernous area that was once Linens & Things celebrates it's one year anniversary.




Modern Italian restaurant Socca heats the corner of Clark and School.

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Back

Sorry for the delay. Here we go!

I took this pic at an arcade in Australia. You couldn't say those things here.







This box is so you can pop out of it for a surprise for your lover. It's $18. As opposed to the $5 version at Mailbox ETC.







Tech support your local authorities.

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On Hiatus

Going away from Chicago for a little bit. Will return with lots more Clark Street crap in amonth. Please, stay safe, cool and dry.

Thanks!

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Trashy Reading

How Salt & Pepper runs all those TVs.




Nothing like overflowing, wet, stinky garbage in the sun. Wait, what's on top there...?




Some kid from 1977 lost his schoolbook.




Packing up The Zoo. The space under the tracks on Roscoe was in Public Enemies, but no one stays there very long.

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Worstest

Bad: Scrawled on an abandoned store window.




Badder: the new 2009 stripper names.




Worst: sad reminder that there is no such thing as a safe neighborhood. This is Clark & Belmont, just steps from Orange.

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Wrigley written

Item #30 from "Things White People Like."




Visit their other site, BUM (Buildings Under Managed)




I, too, hate the movie American Beauty.

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Agreed.




Okay.




Oh, no.
(on the left, a wacky collection of true one night stand stories. On the right, one womans struggle with promiscuity and the battle to reclaim her own life and body. )

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More signs

(the Zoo is offically closed)

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Scene!

Me: did someone call you guys or are you just waiting?
Paramedics: this is where the hot chicks are!!




Meanwhile, 15 feet away, a downed bridesmaid.




This ATM works fine. The store puts up these notes to drive business to their in-store ATM.

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Street sightings

The Prez has a side bidness.




Put a little birdhouse in your soul.




Apparently Dan is a centaur.




Comedy.

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Rascaly Flatts

Wrigley goes Country!!

Lots of lame cowboy hats. Hot pink with sparkles? Really?

As UNdiverse as a Cubs games is, this made it look likethe Wite-Out Factory in a blizzard.




The Hershey S'Mores Kareoke Tent. WTF?

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The dreaded Device

Even the motherF'ing parking lot is sponsored by MotherF'ing Budweiser.




Hey, what's going on in this doorway?




Oh Great God. What the Living Fuck goes on on Clark Street?!?!?!

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McPeddlers

That's a screenshot of the Chicago Chinatown website... This coming Sunday is the "Chinatown Festival" (basically a "Taste of Chinatown") and what better way to celebrate than by printing out a coupon from McDonalds for a Free Happy Meal!! Move over, General Tso!!

and

from the Tribune:

Peddlers balk at move

Expanding Wrigley no-sell zone would kill business, vendors say

By Lisa Black | Tribune reporter

July 4, 2009

Sidewalk peddlers who hawk peanuts, T-shirts and novelty items outside Wrigley Fieldreacted angrily Friday to an alderman's proposal to move them two blocks from the ballpark, saying that they not only add to game-day excitement but also need to earn a living. "We all went out there, got our permits and spent thousands of dollars on inventory, and now they are going to change the rules in the middle of the summer," said John Bakerbefore the 1:20 p.m. game. Several vendors said they will be unable to sell merchandise outside the immediate vicinity of the park. "If they do this, we will all be out of work," said Joe Sienkiewicz, 46, a self-describedWhite Sox fan and T-shirt purveyor. "We have families. We have children."

He rejects Ald. Thomas Tunney's argument that the measure would help clear streets and improve safety. Tunney, whose 44th Ward includes the ballpark, sponsored the measure to expand an area where street performers and peddlers are prohibited. Under the proposal, the ban would begin two hours before and end two hours after baseball games or concerts. Performers and peddlers who sell merchandise from a cart or temporary stand already are barred from the sidewalks on the ballpark's perimeter along Addison and Clark Streets and Waveland and Sheffield Avenues. The proposal would expand that zone to include both sides of Addison and Waveland between Wilton and Racine Avenues, and both sides of Clark and Sheffield between Newport Avenue and Grace Street. Tunney could not be reached Friday. He was quoted earlier in the week as saying, "It's a public safety issue. You can't walk to the park." Similar restrictions are in place outside U.S. Cellular Field and other ballparks, but some fans agreed Friday that they enjoy the rowdy flea-market ambience that enshrines Wrigley. "It's part of Wrigley Field. Why would you make changes like that?" asked Blaine Schmidt, 32, a former Illinoisan visiting from Florida. The roving peddlers sell T-shirts and caps, some more profane than others, for $5 to $10 less than those in nearby stores. Blagoi Eftimov, 28, said that "it would hurt me a lot" if forced to move several blocks away from the ballpark. "You interact with people. Everyone is out here to make money and have a good time." Others said they believe the proposal was aimed at performers such as the "bucket boys" who attract crowds that block the street. A traffic aide at a busy intersection before Friday's game said the peddlers usually remain behind barricades as required. "They're not really a problem," said Lucille Landry. She finds it harder to move along fans who linger in the street after the stoplight changes color. Sienkiewicz said the city could find other ways to improve pedestrian and traffic flow. "After the game, when the drunks come pouring out -- that's the safety issue," he said.

Cardinal Sins

Pride.




Greed.




Gluttony.

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Pollutions

Light from the horrid video signs on buses.




Available to a nice burrowing mammal.




Smarter than the average realtor.
(I've always been afraid of that restaurant for some reason)

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This update better work.

Sidewalk chalk sale.





Many Clark Strret revelers do indeed arrive via the short bus.

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